Foreign diplomats have been allowed to visit the Uzbek town of Andijan, where troops opened fire on a crowd of protesters last week.

The visitors were taken on a tightly controlled tour of the town but were not allowed to speak to locals.

The Uzbek government said 169 people died in the violence, but a local army source told the BBC 500 were killed.

The nearby border town of Korasuv, which local people seized control of following the violence, remains tense.

A man who appears to in charge of the Korasuv uprising, Bakhtior Rakhimov, told the BBC on Tuesday that the townspeople wanted to establish an Islamic administration, and were willing to fight for their freedom.